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This series uses familiar local features to illustrate environmental issues on a global scale, linking everyday activities and environmental problems. It also deals with ways of solving the problems and offers suggestions for activities, projects and experiments. Focusing on "fast food", this book discusses its effects on people's health and on ... more »the environment. The topics covered include the destruction of rainforests to provide cattle fodder and grazing needed to make beefburgers, the impact of highly-processed foods such as potato chips, intensive farming methods and the global trade in fast-food ingredients and finished products. Also considered is the nutritional value of fast food.« less